Erin Robinson

Graduate Student | Consultant

Information Science Department, University of Colorado

Education

Aug. 2021 - Present Boulder, CO University of Colorado, Boulder (Ph.D., Information Science (in progress))

Aug. 2021 - May 2024 Boulder, CO University of Colorado, Boulder (M.Sc., Information Science)

Jun. 2006 - Nov. 2010 St. Louis, MO Washington University in St. Louis (M.Sc., Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering)

  • Thesis: Integration Of Multi-Sensory Earth Observations For Characterization Of Air Quality Events

Aug. 2002 - May. 2006 St. Louis, MO Washington University in St. Louis (B.Sc., Chemical Engineering)

Research Interests

Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Environmental Informatics, Knowledge Infrastructure, Science of Science, STS

Professional Experience

Nov 2020 - Present Boulder, CO Metadata Game Changers, LLC (CEO & Co-Founder)

Nov 2014 - Sep 2020 Boulder, CO & National Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) (Executive Director)

Nov 2010 - Nov 2014 Boulder, CO & National Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) (Information and Virtual Community Director)

Jun 2006 - Nov 2010 St. Louis, MO Center for Air Pollution Impact and Trend Analysis (CAPITA), Washington University in St. Louis (Research Assistant)

Publications

For all publications see my Google Scholar Profile

____ (Papers) <ul> <li> Lowndes, J. S., Holder, A. M., Markowitz, E. H., Clatterbuck, C., Bradford, A. L., Doering, K., Stevens, M. H., Butland, S., Burke, D., Kross, S., Hollister, J. W., Stawitz, C., Siple, M. C., Rios, A., Welch, J. N., Li, B., Nojavan, F., Davis, A., Steiner, E., … Robinson, E. (2024). Shifting institutional culture to develop climate solutions with Open Science. Ecology and Evolution, 14(6), e11341. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11341 </li> <li> Praetzellis, M., Buys, M., Chen, X., Chodacki, J., Davies, N., Garza, K., Nancarrow, C., Riley, B., \& Robinson, E. (2023). A Programmatic and Scalable Approach to making Data Management Machine-Actionable (1). 22(1), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2023-026 </li> <li> Robinson, E., Buys, M., Chodacki, J., Garza, K., Monfort, S., Nancarrow, C., Praetzellis, M., Riley, B., Wimalaratne, S., \& Davies, N. (2022). FAIR Island: Real-World Examples of Place-based Open Science. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7384146 (Accepted to Gigascience) </li> <li> Stall, S., Yarmey, L., Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J., Hanson, B., Lehnert, K., Nosek, B., …, E. Robinson \& Wyborn, L. (2019). Make scientific data FAIR. Nature, 27-29, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01720-7. </li> <li> Wilson, Anne, Downs, R. R., Lenhardt, W. C., Meyer, C., Michener, W., Ramapriyan, H., \& Robinson, E. (2014). Realizing the Value of a National Asset: Scientific Data. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 95(50), 477–478. </li> <li> Robinson, E., Meyer, C. B., \& Lenhardt, W. C. (2012). Moving the science data quality dialogue forward. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 93(19), 189–189. </li></ul></p><p> ____ (Posters (Peer Reviewed))

  • Robinson, E., & Palen, L. (2023). Invisible Coordination Work: Field Stations as Scientific Caregivers. Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 160–163. https://doi.org/10.1145/3584931.3606982

____ (Conference Presentations (Light peer review, invited noted with *)) <ul> <li> Davies, N., \& Robinson, E. (2024). Resisting Contextual Collapse: How an Internet of Places (iPlaces) can help Field Stations and Marine Labs Operationalize FAIR and CARE Principles for Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice. AGU24. </li> <li> Wyborn, L. A., Robinson, E., Farrington, R., \& Rawling, T. (2024). Improving Practices for Persistently Recording the CARE Principles for Collections of Place-based Research Samples, Observations and Instrument Measurements. AGU24. </li> <li> Robinson, E., Anderson, J., Buttigieg, P. L., Choe, S., Davies, N., Kansa, E. C., ... \& Lehnert, K. (2024). Sampling Nature: Looking to the Future for AI-ready Samples. AGU24. </li> <li> * Robinson, E., Anderson, J., Buys, M., Chodacki, J., Choe, S., Davies, N., Kansa, S., Lehnert, K., Meyer, C., Praetzellis, M., Thomer, A., Vieglais, D., Walls, R., \& Wimalaratne, S. (2023, December 14) (Invited Union Session). Exploring the Hidden Afterlives of Material Samples: How the Internet of Samples (iSamples) and Transdisciplinary Collaboration Across the Material Sample Community Enables Open Science with Samples. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10381317 </li> <li> Lowndes, J. S. S., Robinson, E., Lind, B. M., Steiker, A. E., Lopez, L. A., Friesz, A., ... \& Shriver, S. (2023). NASA Openscapes approaches and stories of kinder, open science in the Cloud. AGU23. </li> <li> Friesz, A. M., Virdi, M., Lind, B. M., Lowndes, J. S. S., \& Robinson, E. (2023). Community building across government and responding to researcher needs with the NASA Openscapes framework. AGU23. </li> <li> Kempler, L. A., Lopez, L. A., Wen, Y., Cornillon, P., Lowndes, J. S. S., Robinson, E., \& Hepplewhite, C. L. (2023). Accessing NASA Earthdata in the Cloud: Experiences Using MATLAB on NASA Openscapes’ 2i2c JupyterHub. AGU23. </li> <li> Lind, B. M., Taglialatela, C. M. O., Nickles, C., Friesz, A. M., Hunzinger, A., Thornton, M., ... E. Robinson \& Lowndes, J. S. S. (2023, December). Enabling Analysis in the Cloud Using NASA Earth Science Data. In AGU23. AGU. </li> <li> Robinson, E., Anderson, J., Hudson, M., Meyer, C., \& Davies, N. (2022). Island Sampling: Applying the FAIR and CARE Principles to Material Samples in Support of Place-based Sustainability Science. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. </li> <li> * Lowndes, J. , Robinson, E. (2021). (Invited Union Session) Open Project Design: Lessons from the NASA Openscapes Framework. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts </li> <li> * Robinson, E. (2020). (Invited Award Lecture) AGU Leptoukh Lecture: Putting Data to Work: Moving science forward together beyond where we thought possible. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. </li> <li> * Robinson, E. (2019a). (Invited Union) Invited panelist. In AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts. </li></ul></p><p> ____ (Other Presentations (non-archival))

Awards & Honors

2024 ____ University of Colorado, Boulder (CMCI Scholarship)

2023 ____ University of Colorado, Boulder (CMCI Scholarship Award from the Ernie and Jean Martin Graduate Fund)

2020 ____ Earth and Space Science Informatics Section, American Geophysical Union (AGU) (Leptoukh Lecture Award)

  • `For achievement in computational sciences, data sciences, and informatics leading to, or enabling, advances in domain science.'' </li></ul></p><p>2020____ Geoinformatics Division, Geological Society of America (GSA) (Outstanding Contributions in Geoinformatics) <ul> <li> “Honors an individual who has contributed in an outstanding manner to geology through the application of the principles of Geoinformatics” </li></ul></p><p>2020` ____ NASA (NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal)
    • “For exceptional, sustained, and creative community building among NASA and its collaborators, significantly enhancing NASA investments in data, technology, and applications.”

Grants

Additional funding from past positions can be found on my ORCID profile

Jan 2024 - Oct 2024 ____ SEEKCommons RCN funded by NSF Award # 2226425 (SEEKCommons Fellowship)

2021 - 2024 ____ National Science Foundation (EAGER: The FAIR Island Project for Place-based Open Science)

  • Co-Principle Investigator (PI: John Chodacki, California Digital Library; Co-I: Neil Davies, UC Berkeley, Gump Field Station; Co-I: Matt Buys, DataCite)
  • $296,234 (Robinson: $121,440.00)

2021 - 2024 ____ NASA (Openscapes: Enabling a new era of science on the cloud in response to the 2020 NASA ROSES Element E2)

  • Consultant (PI: Julia Lowndes, UC Santa Barbara)
  • $900,000 (Robinson: $273,071)

Teaching Experience

Mar 2025 Moorea, French Polynesia University of California, Berkeley (Instructor)

  • Island Sustainability Program, Data Science, Communication, and Professionalism (ESPM 109E) course

Mar 2024 Moorea, French Polynesia University of California, Berkeley (Instructor)

  • Island Sustainability Program, Data Science, Communication, and Professionalism (ESPM 109E) course

Mar 2023 Moorea, French Polynesia University of California, Berkeley (Instructor)

  • Island Sustainability Program, Data Science, Communication, and Professionalism (ESPM 109E) course

Spring 2023 Boulder, CO University of Colorado, Boulder (Grader)

  • INFO 4608: Mastery in Information Science: Community-Based Design
  • Instructor: Dr. Ricarose Roque

Fall 2023 Boulder, CO University of Colorado, Boulder (Grader)

  • INFO 2131: Information Ecosystems
  • Instructor: Dr. Leysia Palen

Fall 2022 Boulder, CO University of Colorado, Boulder (Grader)

  • INFO 2131: Information Ecosystems
  • Instructor: Dr. Leysia Palen

Volunteer/Service

____ (University Service) <ul> <li> Teaching Faculty Hire Committee (2024) </li> <li> INFO GSA, Treasurer (2022-2023) </li> <li> GPSG Liason to the Library Review Board (2021-2022) </li></ul></p><p> ____ (Reviewing Work)

  • CHI 2024
  • CSCW 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • NSF 2023, 2024

____ (Workshops and Session Convening) <ul> <li> iSamples Workshop, Feb 2025, Moorea, French Polynesia </li> <li> SEEKCommons Annual Convening, December 2024, Berkeley, CA </li> <li> Island Health and Sustainability Conference, November 2024, Moorea, French Polynesia </li> <li> IMLS FAIR+CARE Workshop, October 2024, Marin, CA </li> <li> Sampling Nature Research Coordination Network Workshop, May 2024, Washington, D.C. </li> <li> Robinson, E., Adler, J., Wyborn, L. A., Smith, D. K., \& Damerow, J. E. (2023, December). Preserving Our Primary Field Data for Future Generations of Geoscientific Research: Perspectives on Managing Physical Samples, Airborne Observations, and Other Field Data I Oral. In AGU23. </li> <li> Sampling Nature Research Coordination Network Workshop, Dec 2023, New York City, NY </li> <li> Sampling Nature Research Coordination Network Workshop, May 2023, Tucson, AZ </li></ul></p><p> ____ (Other Memberships)

  • OBFS (2023-Present)
  • CSCW 2023 Registration Chair, Organizing Committee
  • OpenAQ Board, Treasurer and Member (2022-present)
  • ACM SIGCHI (2021-present)
  • Research Data Alliance (2018-present)
  • American Geophysical Union (2006-present)
  • Earth Science Information Partners (2006-present)

Additional Credentials

2024 Remote Aalburg University (Sustainable and Digital Transformation PhD Course)

2024 Online NASA (NASA Open Science)

2023 Online Carpentries (Certified Carpentries Instructor)

2021 Online University of Colorado, Boulder (Research Data Bootcamp Badge)

  • Data Bootcamp Project: Recreate key findings from ‘State of Open At University of Colorado Baseline report’

2021 Online International Coaching Federation (Associate Certified Coach)

  • Renewed 2024

2021 Online CITI (Social Behavioral Research Investigators and Key Personnel)

  • Renewed 2024

2021 Online CITI (Social and Behavioral Responsible Conduct of Research)

  • Renewed 2024